On Jun 21, 11:54 am, Captain Compassion <dar...@NOSPAMcharter.net>
wrote:

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:26:30 -0700, Jerry Kraus





<jkraus_1...@yahoo.com> wrote:

On Jun 21, 11:15 am, Captain Compassion <dar...@NOSPAMcharter.net>
wrote:

CLIMATE: Silly science
Thursday, June 21, 2007http://www.rep-am.com/story.php?id=25817
Copyright © 2007 Republican-American

The Portland Press-Herald in Maine recently published an op-ed
("Pending doom: Global warming crisis") by five environmentalists.
They claim the earth's temperature "is rising to dangerous levels" and
doing so at "such an alarming rate that the continents are in danger."
They blamed mankind's greenhouse gases for Hurricane Katrina; for "the
strange weather around us this winter and spring and even summer-like
days in March"; and for melting ice shelves and glaciers that "will
raise the water level of the world's oceans nearly 40 feet. Basically,
Manhattan would be underwater."

That's extreme even by Al Gore's standards. But there's a reason their
seem juvenile: The authors are fourth-graders at Portland's East End
Community School. Yes, America's schoolchildren are being fed
propaganda masquerading as science, and as it is with the
global-warmists' computer models, it's garbage in, garbage out.

Yet from these facile arguments, the students expect readers to run
out and change light bulbs, drive less, recycle more, plant trees and
turn off their electronics to "save (pick a number) pounds of CO" a
year. Since their teacher wasn't knowledgeable enough about science to
teach them the correct chemical symbol for carbon dioxide (CO2),
readers have every right to question his credentials, the curriculum
and his ability to separate facts from talking points.

The students were right in urging everyone to "be informed." They
recommended visiting Mr. Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" Web site andwww.stopglobalwarming.org, where the arguments are only slightly more
sophisticated than those expressed by the fourth-graders. For more
lucid, factual information, try junkscience.com, the Competitive
Enterprise Institute's environmental-policy page (www.cei.org) and
TCSDaily.com. The facts suppressed by the mainstream news media may be
found there.

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There may come a time when the CO2 police will wander the earth telling
the poor and the dispossed how many dung chips they can put on their
cook fires. -- Captain Compassion.

Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not
on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away
with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone
are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices
me wherever I am or whatever I do. -- EPICTETUS

Celibacy in healthy human beings is a form of
insanity. -- Captain Compassion

"Civilization is the interval between Ice Ages." -- Will Durant.

Joseph R. Darancette
dar...@NOSPAMcharter.net

Check out this thread with British physicist Baldin Lee Pramer and
myself debating the mathematics. Apparently the pure mathematicians
are beginning to turn on the climatologists, pointing out that
"no...mathematics doesn't work that way. You can't just make up as
many assumptions as you want and call it hard science."

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics/browse_thread/thread/55a1...

The Math guys must hate this GW *****.

"There is no mathematical symbol for belief." -- Captain Compassion

I suspect that you would agree with me that Occam was right

"Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate" -- William of Ockham
(ca. 1285-1349)

--
There may come a time when the CO2 police will wander the earth telling
the poor and the dispossed how many dung chips they can put on their
cook fires. -- Captain Compassion.

Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not
on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away
with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone
are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices
me wherever I am or whatever I do. -- EPICTETUS

Celibacy in healthy human beings is a form of
insanity. -- Captain Compassion

"Civilization is the interval between Ice Ages." -- Will Durant.

Joseph R. Darancette
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Unfortunately, simplicity does not make for bureaucratic survival.
Occam's razor is at odds with the very concept of professional
science. Simple, inexpensive answers are inconsistent with the
concept of academic tenure.